Carthagène
\kaʁ.ta.ʒɛn\
The verdict
“Carthagène” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,633. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,633
- frequency rank, French
- 257,141
- “C” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville espagnole située dans la province de Murcie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-carthagene · Carthagène · French
Carthagène · rank #46,633 · 16 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #46,633
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 257,141
- PHOTO-FINISH carbonara
Nearest frequency peer: carbonara (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Frequency neighbourhood for “Carthagène”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- capitule
capitule
53,371 corpus weight
- caquiste
caquiste
53,370 corpus weight
- carbonara
carbonara
53,369 corpus weight
- Carthagène
Carthagène
53,368 corpus weight
- cassoulet
cassoulet
53,367 corpus weight
- catcheur
catcheur
53,366 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “Carthagène” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Carthagène |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \kaʁ.ta.ʒɛn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #46,633 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Carthagène” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Carthagène (IPA \kaʁ.ta.ʒɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #46,633 among 257,141 “C” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Carthagène, with forms such as "acrthagène", "carhtagène", and "carrthagène". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Carthage", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Carthagène, spelled C-A-R-T-H-A-G-È-N-E.
Definition
- 1Ville espagnole située dans la province de Murcie.
- 2Carthagène des Indes, ville colombienne située dans le département de Bolívar.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Carthagène appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Selon toutes probabilités, ces navires, fabriqués à Marseille, Ampurias, Ibiza ou Carthagène, sont de faible tonnage. L’époque connaît des navires de tonnage conséquent, mais leurs naufrages se concentrent surtout autour des grands nœuds de navigation […]
En 1585, des escadres anglaises avaient attaqué, sans déclaration de guerre, Saint-Domingue et Carthagène. Une année plus tard, Drake insulta Lisbonne et détruisit, à Cadix, une flotte entière de navires de transport.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acrthagène
- carhtagène
- carrthagène
- cartahgène
- carthagene
- carthaggène
- carthagnèe
- carthagèen
- carthagènne
- carthaègne
- carthgaène
- carthhagène
- cartthagène
- catrhagène
- ccarthagène
- crathagène
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Carthagène - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of May 6, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Carthagène", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.